Annoyed at people thinking adhd is fake or an excuse.

The only thing that bothers me is when EVERY SINGLE FUCKING PERSON in class uses the excuse "Kid, I'm ADHD. Obviously I'm not gonna do the homework." It's times like that where I must resist screaming in their insignificant little faces.

Also, when people use disorders as an adjective.
"I'm sooo OCD."
"Whoa man, you must me ADHD or something."

But yes, I understand that ADHD is a real condition and people should respect it, not use it as an excuse or accuse others of not really needing help.

It is normal for people to think your faking it... I'm ADHD and my own husband thinks I fake it

I will have to agree. I was diagnosed with adhd at the age of eight when my brother fell off a second story window and they put me on medication. The medication nearly doubled my response time and IQ. At 4th grade, i entered the GATE program, which not-suprisingly requires an IQ of 132 or higher. I got off meds in 8th grade due to medications keeping my body from being hungry or lack of muscle growth. Im 10th grade now, normal height and weight, and i work out and practice martial arts.
My point is, medications can work but they can have some temporary or permenant consequences.

It annoys me too. My old teachers say "Oh she just thinks that she has ADHD now the whole world depends on her." No bitch, just no. I don't really bother telling people because I don't really care, meds don't help me, so I don't take any meds for anything.
I take headache pills and that's about it.

Also people dont seem to realise that ADD and ADHD are linked to depression and emotional unstability

Ugh, I hate that too. It's so widespread that it sometimes makes it really hard to get necessary accommodations.

ADHD is just a name given to a selection of symptoms, and since those symptoms exist ADHD exists. That's just as simple as it is, really :P

Whether ADHD is serious enough to be called a disorder, or whether it is over-diagnosed, are other issues entirely. I guess ADHD probably is sometimes diagnosed when it isn't appropriate or helpful to the child to give a diagnosis, but there are other times when it obviously is helpful.

Anecdotally, there doesn't seem to be the same culture surrounding ADHD over here as there is America. I only know one person in my year who is diagnosed with it - that's less than the number in my year who are dyspraxic, the number who are dyslexic and the number who are autistic. The ADHD lad does all the work and doesn't take it as an excuse for anything; he just gets a bit of extra time in exams.

I hate when people say that neurological conditions/mental illnesses are either fake or the patients fault. I think that it would be for the greater good if more people were properly educated on neurological/mental conditions and how to spot them. On another note, I was diagnosed as having ADHD as a kid. I know believe that I was misdiagnosed on most of the conditions that I have been labeled as having. My mother/grandmother agreed to put me on medications which was a huge mistake. I put on a pharmaceutical stew that consisted of, i think, 3 or 4 different kinds of medicine. The majority of them were in pill form and the one that I hated the most was nasal spray. Unsurprisingly, they had side-effects most of which I thankfully can't remember but I told that it caused a serious decrease in my already small appetite. The side-effect I remember having was in the form of a dream that projected itself in reality.

The dream was nightmare that seemed to blend in old aspects of nightmares with a newer aspects. The setting was in the parking lot of a grocery store that I used to frequently go to. The main characters, that I can remember, was a African American family. It was an abusive, possibly obese, mother and her two daughters of varying ages. My memory gets more vague at this point, but I know that the mother did a act of sheer cruelty to one of her daughters. She either murdered one of them because the girl was pissing her off or she chopped off some limbs. I don't know! I think the second daughter was very upset so she killed her too. Then, there was me and the mother saw me. I think she chased me and brutally murdered me or at least tried to. It was probably around that part that I finally woke up. I remember going to Catholic school and being paranoid that this woman was still going to try to kill me. I couldn't properly sit in my chair because I believed that if I did, the mother would somehow do something to my legs. I don't think it took my teacher(s) very long to send me to the school psychiatrist. By the way, I was in 1st grade when this happened! O_0

For a person with adhd/add i do hate it when people say its not real yes i do think it is also over diagnosed most of the time

Nine times out of ten, kids with ADHD are just the result of lousy parenting.

I can do lots of things mosts ADHD people can't. When I was diagnosed at age 5 they said it was “minor”. Now after many years it seems to have gotten worse.

There`s no such thing as a naughty child anymore. I think parents want a diagnosis of adhd, because then they can`t be told that it`s their fault for not disciplining their brat.

Is your focus affected even when doing something you really want to do?

It's sometimes fake, sometimes real.

What annoys me is people who 1. Have never been tested but say they have ADHD becuase they get distracted or 2.People who-when they do have ADHD- using is as an excuse to not try at all. I have ADHD, I was diagnosed when I was 8 and have been diagnosed 2 times after that. My parents never put me on meds, which I'm so thankful for. They worked with me, so did the school, I worked extremely hard and I ended up going out of high school with around an 85% average (would've been higher if it wasn't for the damn Math class). A lot of people didn't even know I had it because I was so quiet, I had more of the racing/hyper thoughts. Or you could say that it's always a party in my barin!

I'm the same way. I have ADD (inattentive type) and some people believe in only the hyperactivity type and there are some who believe neither exists. The science behind this disorder is 100% legit. I don't see why anyone would deny it.

The head of year at my high school used to think A.D.D was fake

Why aren't there educational laws that support ADHD?

I'm researching ADHD at the minute. I'm looking at the link between serotonin deficiency and trytophan levels, folic acid levels and omega-3 levels in the diet.

It's normal.
One must understand, though, that even for people who know about this kind of stuff that we want to attribute things like poor attention span, depression etc. To being a natural part of someone's personality rather than a mental disorder. It's human nature.

ADHD IS FAKE!